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Denial. [Obs.]

Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

y several contrary customs, . . . many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated. Sir M. Hale.

In a derogatory manner.

The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to. I hope it is no derogation to the Christian religion. Locke. He counted it no derogation of his manhood to be seen to weep. F. W. Robertson.

Derogatory. -- De*rog"a*tive*ly, adv. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A detractor.

In a derogatory manner; disparagingly. Aubrey.

Quality of being derogatory.

Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from to, or unto. Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not. Blackstone. His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other. Macaulay. Derogatory…

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To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass.

The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

To disperse; to scatter; -- opposite of congregate. [Obs.]

The process of separation, or the condition of being separate, as of the molecules of a body.

Release from obligation. Jer. Taylor.

Releasing from obligation. "Disobligatory power." Charles I.

ut or going astray; digression. Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation. Thackeray.

Published. [Obs.] Bale.

A divulger. [R.]